Darden North is a Mississippi obstetrician/gynecologist who not only delivers babies but also writes murder mysteries and medical thrillers.
In FRESH FROZEN, North's third novel (October 2008), a grisly southern murder, a movie star, and a frozen heist question the fabric of human ethics as a young policeman and his tormented wife discover that human reproductive tissue can become a fatal commo

Darden North, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who grew up in the Mississippi Delta and now lives in Jackson, Mississippi, where he practices medicine. He and his wife Sally have two young adult children, as well as two dogs and a grand dog. A graduate of Ole Miss and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, he is a certified DaVinci robotic surgeon and a DaVinci proctor. North’s first novel House Call (hardcover 2005, paperback 2007, ebook 2010) was awarded Finalist in Mystery/Suspense by the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. His second novel Points of Origin (hardcover 2006, ebook 2010) was recognized in Southern Fiction by the 2007 Independent Publishers Book (IPPY) Awards. His third novel, Fresh Frozen (hardcover 2008, ebook 2010) is in film development by Frank Vitolo and Scott Alvaraz. The screenplay adaptation of Fresh Frozen is by Amy Taylor. The novel received Best Cover Design in the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards and Finalist in Regional Fiction.

North has studied at the International Thriller Writers Conference and at the SEAK Advanced Writing Seminar in Chicago as well as at the 2012 SEAK Fiction Writing Conference in Hyannis where he received a writing award. He presented at the Southern Expressions Conference on the construction of mysteries and thrillers and on self-promotion as a novelist. North is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Mississippi Writers Guild, and Sisters in Crime. He participated as a panelist at “Murder in the Magic City” (Birmingham, AL), "Author! Author! Celebration of the Written Word" (Shreveport LA), “Murder on the Menu” (Wetumpka, AL), and “Thriller Author Panel – 2008 SIBA Trade Show” (Mobile, AL).

Prior to attending medical school, Darden North worked in lawn maintenance, waited tables, ran a community pool concession stand, and taught swimming lesions. Several years ago, he hung up his golf clubs for a laptop. In his spare time, North gardens, walks for exercise, reads fiction, and travels with his family.

Accomplishments: Darden North, MD, is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who lives in Jackson, Mississippi, where he practices medicine at Jackson Healthcare for Women, PA, and writes popular fiction. North’s first novel HOUSE CALL was independently published in hardcover in 2005 followed by paperback release in October 2007. His second hardcover novel POINTS OF ORIGIN was recognized in Southern Fiction in the 2007 Independent Publishers Book Awards. HOUSE CALL was a Mystery/Suspense Finalist in the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Both novels have received numerous published reviews. North is a member of Mystery Writers of America; the Mississippi Writers Guild; the Southern Writers Group; PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association; Crossroads Film Society; as well as a brother member of Sisters in Crime. He attended the 2005 Oxford (MS) Conference for the Book; presented at the 2006 Southern Independent Book Association Show (Orlando, FLA); exhibited at the 2007 Bluegrass Book Festival (Lexington, KY); and was a 2008 author panelist at both Murder in the Magic City (Birmingham, ALA) and Murder on the Menu (Wetumpka, ALA). Most recently he exhibited at the 2008 South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia, SC.
Darden North received a writing award at the 2012 SEAK Fiction Writing Conference at Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Wiggle Room (paperback and eBook) by Darden NorthWhile serving as an Air Force surgeon at the height of the Iraq War, Major Brad Cummins fails to save an injured soldier after successful surgery yet must mend the Iraqi national maimed in the same IED blast. Brad survives the medical tribunal’s inquest over the GI’s unexplained death but is haunted by the Iraqi’s words: Maybe you should rethink what you really are. When he returns from deployment...

House Call (hardcover and eBook) by Darden NorthHOUSE CALL As young Dr. Knox Chamblee struggles to establish a medical practice in a southern town, both his social and professional conquests are derailed by a psychotic killer. In House Call no one connects the first victim, an attractive hospital nurse discovered floating in a bloody bathtub, to the near-frozen body of Dr. Cullen Gwinn, Chamblee’s mentor and chief proponent, found at the base o...

House Call (paperback and eBook ) by Darden NorthHOUSE CALL As young Dr. Knox Chamblee struggles to establish a medical practice in a southern town, both his social and professional conquests are derailed by a psychotic killer. In House Call no one connects the first victim, an attractive hospital nurse discovered floating in a bloody bathtub, to the near-frozen body of Dr. Cullen Gwinn, Chamblee’s mentor and chief proponent, found at the base o...

Points of Origin
POINTS OF ORIGIN (100,000 words/hardcover) In Points of Origin, the death of 19-year-old patient Flowers Ridley costs Dr. Dan Foxworth his reputation, his fortune, his plastic surgery dynasty, and ultimately his own life. Still reeling from the tragedy and struggling to overcome his rejection from medical school, Dr. Foxworth’s son, Sher, breaks with family tradition and becomes a fireman. His new occupation pits him against a former schoolmate, now an arsonist hired to torch the mansion of Cordell Pixler, the same medical malpractice attorney who ruined Sher’s father. The shrinking Foxworth family’s resentment of Pixler is matched only by that of the attorney’s spurned mistress, humiliated personal architect, and the remaining Ridleys, who have squandered their medical malpractice jury award. When the attorney’s house explodes in flames, the origin of the fire does not rest with the arsonist alone. A fierce retribution is unleashed from many sources as Sher Foxworth finally avenges his family.

House Call
HOUSE CALL (100,000 words/hardcover/paperback) As young Dr. Knox Chamblee struggles to establish a medical practice in a southern town, both his social and professional conquests are derailed by a psychotic killer. In House Call no one connects the first victim, an attractive hospital nurse discovered floating in a bloody bathtub, to the near-frozen body of Dr. Cullen Gwinn, Chamblee’s mentor and chief proponent, found at the base of a deer stand. The primary police suspect is Dr. Aslyn Hawes, Chamblee’s female senior partner and overbearing nemesis, whose jealousy of the victims cloaks her in suspicion. In fact, Hawes resents virtually every non-patient resident of the town with the exception of the teenage ambulance driver who becomes a fixture in her Jacuzzi. That same young man sexually tempts Jay Rutledge, the conniving hospital administrator and the killer’s next target. As the murder investigation unfolds around him, Knox Chamblee evolves from potential suspect in the nurse’s murder to victim of a totally different crime – career sabotage due to reverse sexual discrimination. By squelching his own resentment and fulfilling his medical obligations, Dr. Chamblee overcomes his mentor’s death and the resulting career threat caused by a killer who has slaughtered out of mistaken identity.

Synopsis of FRESH FROZEN ...
In a decaying brick building complex just north of Jackson, Mississippi, human reproductive tissue becomes an unexpected commodity. As the rest of the world is consumed with terrorists, biological warfare, and the price of world oil, a state-of-the-art medical facility and a circle of unlikely associates become consumed with the most basic of human functions --- and all for profit. Outcasts of a renewed baby boom that separates the United States from other wealthy nations, a young policeman and his tormented wife fail miserably to produce a family. Their futile attempts to become parents have not only pushed Wesley and Carey Sarbeck to the brink of bankruptcy but nearly cost Carey her life. However, there is one last hope for them: a catalogue of human embryo donors peddled by a woman whose standards are easily dismissed for the right price. This seemingly last chance for the Sarbecks to satisfy their place in middle America tosses them in the middle of a local gruesome murder, the world of Hollywood celebrities, and a heist of human embryos and eggs. Wesley Sarbeck learns there is no competition against those who can pay.

Additional information

Current literary works by Darden North, MD -----
Genre: Mystery, Medical Thriller, Popular Fiction -----
Points of Origin (Hardcover, eBook) ISBN 0977112616 9780977112616
House Call (Hardcover, eBook) SBN 0977112608 9780977112609
House Call (Paperback) ISBN 9780977112623
FRESH FROZEN (Hardcover, eBook) - SYNOPSIS:
In a decaying brick building complex just north of Jackson, Mississippi, human reproductive tissue becomes an unexpected commodity. As the rest of the world is consumed with terrorists, biological warfare, and the price of world oil, a state-of-the-art medical facility and a circle of unlikely associates become consumed with the most basic of human functions --- and all for profit. Outcasts of a renewed baby boom that separates the United States from other wealthy nations, a young policeman and his tormented wife fail miserably to produce a family. Their futile attempts to become parents have not only pushed Wesley and Carey Sarbeck to the brink of bankruptcy but nearly cost Carey her life. However, there is one last hope for them: a catalogue of human embryo donors peddled by a woman whose standards are easily dismissed for the right price. This seemingly last chance for the Sarbecks to satisfy their place in middle America tosses them in the middle of a local gruesome murder, the world of Hollywood celebrities, and a heist of human embryos and eggs. Wesley Sarbeck learns there is no competition against those who can pay.
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